Christopher Glaser

Christopher Glaser (1615 Basel – between 1670 and 1678), a pharmaceutical chemist of the 17th century, was a native of Basel, became demonstrator of chemistry, as successor of Lefebvre, at the Jardin du Roi in Paris, and apothecary to Louis XIV and to the duke of Orléans. He is best known through his Traité de la chymie (Paris, 1663),^[1] which went through some ten editions in about twenty-five years, and was translated into both German and English. It has been alleged that he was an accomplice in the notorious poisonings carried out by the marchioness de Brinvilliers, but the extent of his complicity in providing Godin de Sainte-Croix poison in the Affair of the Poisons is doubtful. He appears to have died before 1676. The sal polychrestum Glaseri is normal potassium sulfate which Glaser prepared and used medicinally. The mineral K₃Na(SO₄) ₂ (Glaserite) is named after him.

Further reading

• de Milt, Clara (1942). "Christopher Glaser". Journal of Chemical Education 19: 53–61. doi:10.1021/ed019p53. 

References

•  Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). "Glaser, Christopher". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 
• Mi Gyung Kim - Affinity, that Elusive Dream: A Genealogy of the Chemical Revolution (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2003) ISBN 0262112736)
• Martyn Paine - Materia medica and therapeutics (3 ed) (New York (1859))
• Anne Somerset - The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV (St. Martin's Press (October 12, 2003) ISBN 0-312-33017-0)

1. ^ Neville, Roy G. (1965). "Christophle Glaser and the "Traité de la Chymie," 1663". Chymia 10: 25–52. JSTOR 27757246. 

External links

• Long table of chemists with short note of Glaser

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Name	Glaser, Christopher
Alternative names	Glaser, Christophe; Glaser, Christophle
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Date of birth	1615
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